All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
ADA LEVERSONAs a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
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